Wild West End · Dire Straits

77 bars, 4:34, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 10 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 67 BPM
WILD WEST END · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 48, 54, 55, 56 and 64.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 7 sections: 62 keep time, 6 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-21.

CHORUS
PART B
PART K
PART I
VERSE
OUTRO
6 groovesPCKIB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild West End?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Wild West End hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wild West End?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 48, 54, 55, 56 and 64.

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